"Still, New Orleans is slowly rising....
Well, yeah, it has been five years.
But the work is not done....
It is for me with the front page PoS propaganda piece.
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Yeah, everything is great in the Big Easy now.
"Katrina brings influx of immigrants; Black population in Big Easy drops" by Ylan Q. Mui, Washington Post | August 23, 2010
NEW ORLEANS — Five years after Hurricane Katrina, the ongoing rebuilding of the Big Easy has created a new community of Latino immigrants in this famously insular city, redrawing racial lines in a town long defined by black and white.
The change began within weeks of a storm that decimated homes and upended lives in one of the worst natural disasters in US history.
The number of black residents dropped as many left for Baton Rouge, Houston, and other places.
While the overall numbers of Hispanics are not huge, they continue to grow and have had an outsize impact on the culture of this proudly eccentric city and on how people here view their hometown....
Now they are beginning to sound like Jews (except they are shrinking).
The emergence of Latinos in the emotionally and politically charged aftermath of the storm sparked outcries from displaced residents who felt their jobs and their status in the city were being challenged.
In one infamous news conference, Mayor C. Ray Nagin pledged to return New Orleans to a “chocolate city’’ after previously asking what he could do to keep the city from being “overrun by Mexican workers.’’
Somebody holler racist, will you?
What do you mean he ain't white?
A documentary by Latino performance artist Jose Torres-Tama titled “From Chocolate City to Enchilada Village’’ is reigniting the controversy on local talk radio.
Because YOUR ELECTION needs to be decided on the basis of race, immigration, mosques, and Muslims, AmeriKa!
Political and physical confrontations in the past couple of years have added to the distrust....
Huh. Same way I feel about my morning newspaper.
On a recent afternoon, John Williams, 50, sat on an upside-down bucket inside the garage of the neighborhood auto repair shop where he has worked for more than two decades.
Business has been so slow after the storm that the shop scaled back to just fixing tires....
Some days he can count the number of customers on one hand.
From his makeshift seat, Williams surveyed the remains of the Lower Ninth. The once bustling convenience store across the street is abandoned and dark. The house next door has been torn down, and an empty lot of overgrown weeds has taken its place. The public bus doesn’t stop here anymore.
One of the few signs of life is a taco truck in his parking lot. Latino workers in paint-spattered jeans and work boots line up at the tiny window every day for fresh gorditas, tacos, and burritos.Dare I postulate that they are ILLEGALS?
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But EVERYTHING is BETTER than it WAS (even with the oil slick)!
"5 years after Katrina, New Orleans boasts better levee system protection; But critics argue the $15b project is still not enough" by John Schwartz, New York Times | August 24, 2010
LAKE BORGNE, La. — Nearly five years after Katrina and the devastating failures of the levee system, New Orleans is well on its way to getting the protection system Congress ordered: a ring of 350 miles of linked levees, flood walls, gates, and pumps that surrounds the city and should defend it against the kind of flooding that in any given year has a 1 percent chance of occurring.
The scale of the nearly $15 billion project, which is not due to be completed until the beginning of next year’s hurricane season, brings to mind an earlier age when the nation built huge works like the Brooklyn Bridge, the Hoover Dam, and the Interstate highway system.
Yeah, NOW WE SPEND OUR MONEY on WARS, WALL STREET, and aid to ISRAEL!
The city’s reinforced defenses are already stronger than they were before Katrina. But even after 2011, experts argue, they will still provide less protection than New Orleans needs to avoid serious flooding in massive storms.
For a region devastated by a storm and by a loss of faith in the government’s ability to safeguard it, the new system is a test of more than the prowess of the Army Corps of Engineers. Some residents say they may never fully get over the failure of the Katrina response....
The lessons of Katrina were learned at a tremendous cost in life and property, but they can be seen throughout the works....
Honestly, I m SICK of the MSM putting a SHINE on TURD CATASTROPHES, folks!!
But wait!
Here comes the COUNTRY'S SAVIOR now!!
"Obama vows to stand by, fight for New Orleans; Speaks, visits city 5 years after Katrina" by Helene Cooper, New York Times | August 30, 2010
NEW ORLEANS — President Obama sought yesterday to assure this city, battered by two catastrophic disasters in five years, that federal efforts to rebuild after Hurricane Katrina will not waver even as the city struggles with the aftermath of the
Speaking at Xavier University on the fifth anniversary of the hurricane that took 1,800 lives, Obama emphasized the resilience of New Orleans residents....
Most of the signs held by hardy protesters who braved rain and wind to await Obama’s arrival at Xavier yesterday were related to the oil spill, which has been blamed for a drop in tourism, one of the city’s mainstays.
The spill also hurt the commercial fishing industry along the Gulf Coast, in addition to damaging fragile wetlands and wildlife sanctuaries....
Actually, MSM told us it is all better now, so....
Globe Endorses Government on Evaporated Oil From Gulf Gusher
Slow Saturday Special: FDA's Gulf Coast Feast
Want some lunch?
Much of his speech at Xavier was devoted to the spill, and what his administration has been trying to do to limit the fallout.
“From the start, I promised you two things,’’ Obama said.....
TWO MORE PROMISES to BREAK!
Obama brought his family along to New Orleans yesterday. Shortly after Air Force One touched down, the first family stopped for lunch at the Parkway Bakery and Tavern. Obama mingled with diners, as he and Michelle Obama shook hands and took photos....
How does that help with the global warming problem that allegedly caused this, a**hole?
Yeah, we got a CHANGE of FACE in the White House -- and THAT WAS ALL!
